Justice Mary Moreau of the Supreme Court of Canada. Courtesy photo
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday nominated Justice Mary Moreau as the Supreme Court of Canada’s newest jurist, creating a five-woman majority on the nine-person court for the first time since it was established in 1875.
Moreau will join the other female Supreme Court justices—Andromache Karakatsanis, Suzanne Côté, Sheilah Martin and Michelle O’Bonsawin—on what will be the second apex court in the world, after Australia, to have a majority of female judges. The first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada bench was Justice Bertha Wilson, appointed in 1982.
